bill clinton promised this stuff. it seems a lot of presidents promise this, and then they just ignore. is there a way that latin america's growing ability, position as an economic power, particularly brazil, forces the united states, this time, to pay more attention? >> well, it's partly an economic driver of all of this, but also, what u.s. -- what we could consider u.s. domestic issues, which have enormous importance in latin america. the most important one, i think, is immigration. if there is comprehensive immigration reform in the united states, and there's some form of cooperation with sending countries, like mexico, guatemala, honduras, el salvador, and the caribbean countries, that would have an enormous impact in part of latin america. if president obama begins to shift the u.s. policy on drugs, begins looking more at colorado and washington, and less at richard nixon's war on drugs, which is now over 40 years old and has taken nobody anywhere, that's an enormous opportunity also. >> let me stop you, you're